Youth Studies Australia articles from September 2007

Youth Studies Australia archives from September 2007

More of a good thing.(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... The beauty of editing a journal that relies on unsolicited papers is that the findings which researchers want published are often cutting-edge and topical, while the theoretical papers frequently deal with issues that are central to the...

Sexual abuse triggers brain changes.(ABUSE)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... American research indicates that sexual abuse can trigger brain changes among children and young people, and that the nature of these brain changes depends upon the age at which the young person is abused. Dr Susan Anderson, an associate...

Gen Y not afraid of hard work.(ATTITUDES & OPINIONS)(National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Frugal, hard-working and career-focused. This is the picture of Generation Y painted in a report compiled by financial institution AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM). Titled 'Generation whY', the report...

Youth Poll 2007 released.(ATTITUDES & OPINIONS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... In May, the Australian Democrats released results from their annual poll of young Australians. Among the findings from Youth Poll 2007: close to 90% of those surveyed believed that the Federal Government was not doing enough to address the...

Snapshot of young West Australians.(ATTITUDES & OPINIONS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Over 2,700 West Australians aged 12-25 years took part in the 2006 edition of the Youth Media Survey, the results from which were released in June this year. The Youth Media Survey aims to produce a snapshot of the attitudes, opinions and...

Funding for further cyber-bullying research.(BULLYING & VIOLENCE)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University has recently been awarded a Federal Government grant to conduct a national study into the prevalence of and responses to cyber-bullying. The study will involve 10,000...

Why do they do it?(BULLYING & VIOLENCE)(student violence)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... ACT Commissioner for Children and Young People Linda Crebbin has begun a consultation process with young people in the territory to gauge their opinion on the ethics of filming events such as assaults, sexual activity or drug-taking. This...

Whole-school education is the answer.(BULLYING & VIOLENCE)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A two-year study of bullying, involving 4,000 high school students from six schools in western Sydney, has concluded that bullying can be reduced through whole-school anti-bullying strategies in which students, teachers and parents are all...

Extended support recommended for care leavers.(CARE & PROTECTION)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Two Monash University academics have called on state governments to provide continued support for young people in state care, comparable to that which other young people typically receive from their parents into their 20s. Philip Mendes and his...

Research turns the tables on learning.(DEVELOPMENT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A feature article on the recent prevalence of research into adolescent brain development, published in The Age in July, discussed the possible implications of this research for the way in which young people are taught. Findings from research...

Growth in drink production worries some.(DRUGS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A number of drug and alcohol researchers have expressed concern about figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which show a 9% increase in the production of pre-mixed alcoholic drinks between 2005 and 2006, while beer and wine...

Study examines predictors of amphetamine use.(DRUGS)
September 1, 2007... Use of cannabis and other drugs in the teenage years is the strongest predictor of amphetamine use among young adults, according to a new Australian study. Published in July by the Centre for Adolescent Health at the Royal Children's Hospital...

Ice may increase HIV infection risk.(DRUGS)
September 1, 2007... Professor David Cooper, head of the National Centre for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, has raised concerns that the current prevalence of methamphetamine use in Australia is contributing to the rising number of new HIV infections in...

Youth smoking at 10-year low in ACT.(DRUGS)(Australian Capital Territory)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The number of ACT secondary school students who smoke cigarettes is at its lowest level in a decade, according to findings from a study conducted by the ACT Department of Health. The current rate of ACT secondary school students who smoke on a...

Review confirms cannabis-psychosis link.(DRUGS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A systematic review of 35 studies of cannabis use, published in medical journal The Lancet in July, reports that any cannabis use increases an individual's chances of developing psychosis later in life by 41%.The review was conducted by...

Alcohol education course may become a prerequisite.(DRUGS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A number of major Australian universities, along with Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, are investigating the possibility of making all prospective students undertake an online alcohol education course as part of their enrolment process. A...

Dope hits adolescents harder.(DRUGS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Australian research published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology in July adds weight to previous studies which emphasise the negative effects of cannabis on the developing brains of adolescents. Experiments conducted with adolescent and...

Girls gone wild.(DRUGS)(alcohol consumption)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Close to half of the 20,000 teenage girls who responded to a Girlfriend magazine online survey indicated that they drank too much alcohol on weekends. When asked to complete the statement, 'When you head out to party with the girls, you...',...

Rural students missing out on uni.(EDUCATION)(university)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The cost of tertiary education is preventing many high school leavers from rural Victoria from going on to university, according to data gathered from 43,000 students who completed their Victorian Certificate of Education last year. Research...

Crunch time for young Australians.(EMPLOYMENT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A discussion paper released in August by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum and the Australian Industry Group calls for the implementation of measures to increase Year 12 or vocational equivalent completion rates to 85% by 2011 and to 90% by 2015. The...

Young adults well connected.(FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Young adults aged 18-34 years are the most socially connected age group in Australia, according to figures from a social survey released in May by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. More than 81% of 18-34-year-olds had had face-to-face...

Teens keen to try their luck.(GAMBLING)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A study of gambling habits among students from four private high schools in Sydney's eastern suburbs revealed that 81% of students had gambled on at least one occasion in the past year. Close to 7% of the 252 students surveyed met the criteria...

Campaign targets young gamblers.(GAMBLING)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... In May, the Tasmanian Government launched a media campaign to raise community awareness about the dangers of excessive gambling. The campaign was specifically targeted at young people, with cartoon style advertisements placed in newspapers and...

Youth gambling doubles in SA.(GAMBLING)
September 1, 2007... Preliminary results from the Youth Gambling Research Project, conducted by the SA Department of Education and Children's Services, the University of Adelaide and UnitingCare Wesley, indicate that the number of young South Australians...

The old gang is 'still in town'.(GENERATIONS)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A decade after the publication of his book Gangland, which criticised baby boomers for their dominance of Australian cultural identity and their marginalisation of the culture, values and ideas of young people, Australian academic Mark Davis...

Sunnies owned, but not worn.(HEALTH)(sunglasses)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Results from a study conducted by the South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology show that more needs to be done to encourage young people to adopt sun-protective behaviours. The study of 640 adolescents found that while 74% owned a pair of...

Less sleep for young people.(HEALTH)
September 1, 2007... A University of South Australia study has found that young people sleep around 30 minutes less each night than their counterparts in the 1980s did. A comparison of results from the 1985 Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey and the 2004...

Good news and bad news in AIHW report.(HEALTH)(Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's latest report on the health and wellbeing of young Australians aged 18-24 years has delivered mixed findings. While Young Australians: Their health and wellbeing 2007 indicates that the majority...

Card game reveals memory problems.(HEALTH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A Flinders University study has used the card game Snap to test the brain activity of children and young people with attention deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder. Brain scans of the 150 participants indicated that they experienced weaker...

Film figures in fat fight.(HEALTH)(Super Size Me, adolescent health behavior)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Research conducted in the United States suggests that films and television programs containing dietary health information may have the ability to change young people's dietary behaviour and attitudes towards fast food. In a study published in...

More asthma--diet links.(HEALTH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... In the previous edition of 'Youth Monitor' (YSA, v.26, n.2), we reported on a study of the dietary habits of young people in Crete. This study found that young people with diets high in fruit, vegetables and nuts were less likely to develop...

Young women most likely to seek SAAP help.(HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS)(Supported Accommodation Assistance Program )(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Young women aged 15-19 years were the group most likely to receive support from the Supported Accommodation Assistance Program in 2005-2006, according to an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report released in May. Overall, 54,700...

Board game teaches young people financial literacy.(INCOMES & EXPENDITURES)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... In May, the Melbourne Citymission launched a board game designed to help young people learn to manage their finances. The Monopoly-style game, Another Day Another Dollar, was developed by 23-year-old Anthony Radford, who had the idea for the...

Comparable results from Indigenous teen sex study.(INDIGENOUS YOUTH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A snapshot of the sexual behaviour of a group of Indigenous young people living in Townsville, Queensland, found that the level of sexual activity among this group was comparable to results from studies of sexual behaviour among young...

TV junkies face school failure.(MEDIA)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Young people who watch three or more hours of television per day face an increased likelihood of developing learning difficulties and experiencing poor educational outcomes, according to an American longitudinal study which tracked the...

Music video models generate body dissatisfaction.(MEDIA)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A study conducted by researchers at the University of Sussex indicates that watching music video clips featuring thin, idealised female performers and models has a negative impact on teenage girls' body image. A group of 87 16-19-year-old girls...

Headaches and migraines linked with psychiatric disorders.(MENTAL HEALTH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A Taiwanese study published in the journal Neurology has concluded that young people who experience frequent headaches or migraines are more likely than the rest of their peers to commit suicide or suffer from psychiatric disorders. Almost...

Co-rumination may increase girls' problems.(MENTAL HEALTH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Girls who excessively discuss their personal problems with their friends are more likely to experience an increase in symptoms of depression and anxiety than boys who do so, according to findings from an American study. Researchers from the...

Teenage witches use powers for good.(SPIRITUALITY)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Contrary to media images of teenage witches in the Harry Potter films and in television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, the average real-life teenage witch does not use his or her powers to fight demons. According to a...

Physical activity improves students' behaviour.(SPORT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A three-year study involving more than 11,000 students from over 500 schools across Britain indicates that participation in lunchtime and after-school physical activity programs can improve the behaviour and attitudes of struggling or...

High-contact footy concerns.(SPORT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Australian health experts have raised concerns about the dangers of young people playing high-contact football codes following results from a study of over 2,500 retired American football players. This study found that players who had suffered...

Watch your back, tennis players.(SPORT)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Tennis coaches have been advised to modify their young charges' training techniques and schedules following the results of a British study into permanent spinal damage among young tennis players participating in an elite training program....

Young people's mobile use examined.(TECHNOLOGY)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A Victorian academic has called for additional government-funded research into mobile phone use among young people following the findings from her own ongoing research project on the subject. Dr Nina Weerakoddy, a communications lecturer at...

Gamers are still connected.(TECHNOLOGY)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... A US study of the effects of video game playing among young people has found that this activity did not cause young people to spend less time with friends and family or engaged in more active pursuits. The study, by researchers from the...

Are we there yet? National Youth Affairs Conference 1-3 May 2007.(Proceedings)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Are We There Yet? The National Youth Affairs Conference took place over three days in Melbourne, 1-3 May 2007. The conference saw approximately 900 young people, workers with young people, researchers, academics and...

Underpaid and exploited: pay-related employment concerns experienced by young workers.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Macro-level data paint a detailed picture of the vulnerability of young people in employment, such as their concentration in casualised jobs, low average-weekly earnings and reduced access to collective representation, yet little is known about...

Young people and citizenship: an everyday perspective.(Report)
September 1, 2007... This article addresses the changing nature of civic and political engagement for young people in Australia. It draws on recent research that explores youth engagement from the perspective of changing life patterns which see the current...

Young people, dangerous driving and car culture.(Report)
September 1, 2007... There is a widespread perception that hoons are a major danger on Australian roads. However, the statistics and the research paint a very different picture. While young people are disproportionately involved in motor vehicle accidents, very few...

Youth work training package review: more of the same or radical rationalisation?(Report)
September 1, 2007... The development of a national youth work training package in Australia began over 15 years ago. The current package sits under the umbrella of the general Community Services Industry Training Package. The first stage of a review of this package...

The politics of education: why stand-alone youth work degrees matter.
September 1, 2007... While the demand in Australia for youth workers is growing, the education of youth workers in universities is being 'rationalised' because these institutions have been fiscally squeezed by successive federal governments. What are the...

Youth work: a deconstructive approach for those who work with young refugees.(Report)
September 1, 2007... Peter Westoby and Ann Ingamells contend that in an Australian institutional context that is shifting under the influence of corporate liberalism, not only has social justice lost some of its leverage as a framework for achieving change, but the...

The career development of rural Queensland children.(CAREERS)(Report)
September 1, 2007... M. McMahon & K. Rixon, Australian Journal of Career Development, v.16, n.2, 2007, pp.39-49. This exploratory study investigated the 'occupational aspirations and career development influences' of 93 students from Years 6 and 7 at...

Dating, sex and substance use as correlates of adolescents' subjective experience of age.(DEVELOPMENT)(Report)
September 1, 2007... K.J. Arbeau, N.L. Galambos & S.M. Jansson, Journal of Adolescence, v.30, n.3, 2007, pp.435-47. A random sample of 664 12-19-year-olds (322 boys) was gathered from a medium-sized Canadian city to take part in this study, which examined the...

Families' care work during the transition from school to post-school for children with severe disabilities.(DISABILITY)(Report)
September 1, 2007... S. Murray, Family Matters, n.76, 2007, pp.24-29. A qualitative research project was conducted to investigate the type of care work that parents of young people with profound or severe disabilities undertook during their child's transition...

Going up without going away? Working-class women in higher education.(EDUCATION)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Y Taylor, Youth & Policy, n.94, 2007, pp.35-50. To examine 'the exclusions and tensions that working-class women, as students, experience in higher education', semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven self-identified...

Restorative justice in schools: A New Zealand example.(EDUCATION)(Report)
September 1, 2007... J. Wearmouth, R. Mckinney &T Glynn, Educational Research, v.49, n.1, 2007, pp.37-49. Restorative justice is being explored in a number of areas around the world as a positive and constructive community response to the unacceptable...

Structural deficiency or cultural racism: The educational and social experiences of Arab-Australian youth.(ETHNIC/MULTICULTURAL YOUTH)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... F. Mansouri & A. Kamp, Australian Journal of Social Issues, v.42, n. 1, 2007, pp.87-102. This paper investigates whether 'the current societal pattern of exclusion of Arab and Muslim Australians from full Australian citizenship' is...

Parents' and teachers' perceptions of adolescent storm and stress: Relations with parenting and teaching styles.(FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS)(Report)
September 1, 2007... A.R. Hines & S.E. Paulson, Adolescence, v.14, n.164, 2006, pp.597-614. A comparison of parents' and teachers' perceptions of adolescence as a period of 'storm and stress' was conducted with a group of 70 middle and high school teachers and...

The role of friendship in the lives of male and female adolescents: does diabetes make a difference?(HEALTH)(Report)
September 1, 2007... V.S. Helgeson, K.A. Reynolds, O. Escobar, L. Siminero & D. Becket, Journal of Adolescent Health, v.40, n.1, 2007, pp.36-43. To investigate the influence of diabetes on adolescent friendships, 127 adolescents with type 1 diabetes and 129...

Toward youth friendly services: a survey of young people in primary care.(HEALTH)(Report)
September 1, 2007... Journal of General Internal Medicine, v.22, n.6, 2007, pp.775-81. To inform the development of youth-friendly health care services, a cross-sectional study was conducted with 450 young people (aged 16-24 years, 66% female) who presented to...

Homeward bound? Searching for home in inner Sydney's share houses.(HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS)(Report)
September 1, 2007... S. McNamara & J. Connell, Australian Geographer, v.38, n.1, 2007, pp.71-91. Data on socioeconomic changes in Australia over the past 20 years, namely the 'increase in non-family living arrangements' among young adults and the 'declining...

The mental health of 13-17-year-olds in Australia: findings from the National Survey of Mental Health and Well-being.(MENTAL HEALTH)(Report)
September 1, 2007... M.G. Sawyer, L.R. Miller-Lewis & J.J. Clark, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, v.36, n.2, 2007, pp.185-94. Data from the adolescent sample of the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (n = 1,490, aged 13-17 years) were used to...

Learning about work, working life and post-school options: guiding students' reflections on paid part-time work.(EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING)(Report)
September 1, 2007... S. Billett & C. Ovens, Journal of Education and Work, v.20, n.2, 2007, pp.75-90. Recognising the 'authentic working life experiences' that many students nowadays gain through paid part-time employment, a project was developed to use...

The internet and youth political participation.(PARTICIPATION)(Report)
September 1, 2007... M.E. Kann, J. Berry, C. Gant & R Zager, First Monday, v.12, n.8, 2007 With a focus on the United States, this paper outlines three ways in which the internet functions as a possible gateway to increased youth involvement in politics....

Addresses of abstracted publications.(Abstracts)(Directory)
September 1, 2007... Adolescence ISSN 0001-8449 Libra Publishers Inc. 3089C Clairemont Dr, PMB 383 San Diego CA 92117 USA www.abe.pl/html/english/sea rchj. php?pubcode=41264 Australian Geographer ISSN 0004-9182 ...

Career advice Australia.(Youth Initiatives)
September 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Career Advice Australia is an Australian Government initiative that helps young people to prepare for their future by giving them access to quality career information and advice, and by improving the quality of...